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545 Rock for the term of ten years and then to be free And whereas said Rock has furnished a Certificate setting forth the above facts under oath with the seal of the Corporation of said Town affixed the original instrument being lost And whereas the said Elijah Moore did execute on the sixth day of December Eighteen hundred and thirty in the State of Ohio a deed of Manumission freeing said negro which instrument was signed in the presence of two subscribing witnesses Therefore Section 1.st Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland That the said Deed of Manumission and certificate be admitted to Record as valid in the court of Anne Arundel County and that the said Milly Jenkins shall enjoy all the privileges of a free person of colour in this state provided that nothing herein contained shall be so construed or taken as to interfere with any right of said Moore to said negro or the right of any person or persons lawfully claiming under him We certify the aforegoing to be truly copied from the original Act which passed both brances of the Legislator of Maryland at their December Session Eighteen hundred and thirty two Given under our hands at the City of Annapolis this 14.th day of March 1833 George G Brewer Clk House De.l M.d Jos H Nicholson Clk Senate M.d This is to Certify that in or about the year Eighteen hundred & twelve or thirteen Elijah Moore then a resident of the Town of Alexandria sold to the subscriber for a term of ten years a negro woman known by the name of Milly Jenkins and that in the Bill of sale given by the said Moore to the subscriber it was expressed and understood that the sd Milly was to be |
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